Exhibition Will Display Unique Groupings of Approximately 350 Photographs, Videos, and Multimedia Installations, Including Recent and Never-Before-Seen
Works
NEW YORK, June 2, 2022—The Museum of #modernart will present #wolfgangtillmans: To look without fear, the artist’s first museum survey in #newyork, from September 12, 2022, through January 1, 2023, in the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions. Unique groupings of approximately 350 of Tillmans’s photographs, videos, and multimedia installations will be displayed according to a loose chronology throughout the Museum’s entire sixth floor. Shaped by new scholarship and eight years of dialogue with the artist, the exhibition will highlight how Tillmans’s profoundly inventive, philosophical, and
creative approach is both informed by and designed to highlight the poetic possibilities and social and political causes for which he has been an advocate throughout his career.
Wolfgang Tillmans: To look without fear is organized by #roxanamarcoci, The David Dechman Senior Curator of Photography, with Caitlin Ryan, Curatorial Assistant, and Phil Taylor, former Curatorial Assistant, Department of Photography.
Wolfgang Tillmans (b. 1968, Germany) has explored seemingly every genre of photography imaginable, continually experimenting with how to make pictures meaningful. Since the beginning of his career, Tillmans has revolutionized the prevailing conventions of photographic presentation, making connections between his pictures in response to a given context and activating the space of the exhibition. Spanning the artist’s production from the 1980s to the present, this survey will present iconic photographs alongside his rarely seen significant bodies of work, foregrounding the ways in which Tillmans’s concern with social
themes, lived experiences, and the idea of togetherness are inextricable from this ongoing investigation of the medium.
“Social themes form a rich vein throughout his practice,” said #roxanamarcoci. “They motivate Tillmans’s exploration of the questions of how to see and how to communicate seeing.” His approach to art making emphasizes the ideas of human connections, with his work reflecting a deep care for his subjects. Tillmans has pictured survival and loss amid the AIDS crisis, mined the media’s aestheticization of military forces, given voice to LGBTQ+ communities around the world, and tracked the diffusion of globalism.
To look without fear will present several different bodies of work and will reflect Tillmans’s distinct strategies of display. In his installations, unframed prints are taped to the walls or hung with clips, and framed photographs appear alongside magazine pages. Constellations of images—color and black-and-white photographs and photocopies—grouped on walls and tabletops alongside #video projections and sonic installations exemplify the artist’s idea of visual democracy in action. “I see my installations as a reflection of the way I see, the way I perceive or want to perceive my environment,” Tillmans has said.
2021 Concrete-Column-III web
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2009 Faltenwurf-skylight web
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2007 Victoria-Park web
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2013 Silver-152 web
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2001 wake web
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2020 Lueneburg-self web
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2019 Yaounde-Installation-detail web
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2015 Frank-in-the-shower web
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2012 Freischwimmer-230 web
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2010 Tukan web
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2005 August-self-portrait web
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2004 Venus-transit web
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2002 The-Cock kiss web
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2001 still-life-New-York web
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2001 Icestorm web
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1992 Lutz-and-Alex-sitting-in-the-trees web
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2020 blue-self-portrait-shadow web
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1995 Smokin-Jo web
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